Make Your Own Personalized MVP Ballot

How important are each of the following?

Traditional box score stats such as points, shooting percentage, assists, rebounds, blocks, and steals

VORP (Value Over Replacement Player), BPM (Box Plus-Minus), and WS (Win Shares)

RPM (Real Plus-Minus) and PIPM (Player Impact Plus-Minus)

An estimate of the percentage of the team's offense possessions that a player uses

Points and true shooting percentage in the last 5 minutes of games when the score is within 5 points

Regular season record and team net rating with the given player on the court



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Efficiency Total Points

Harden and Giannis Are Outliers Among Outliers

Included in the chart are all players from this season who finished in the Top 80 in both RPM Wins and VORP, finished in the Top 40 in one of those two stats, and played more than 29 minutes per game. That gave me a nice round number of 40 players that covered all legitimate MVP candidates as well as a few interesting oddballs (hello, Thaddeus Young). "Old MVP Candidates" includes all seasons since 2000-01 that finished in the top two in MVP voting or received at least five first place votes.



Percent of Field Goals Assisted 13% 48% 83% Points Per Game 12 24 36

By Lev Akabas